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STATE-OF-THE-ART PEPIN HEART HOSPITAL GOES LIVE WITH SENTILLION'S VERGENCE PRODUCT SUITE

Ranking Cements Company's Position as #1 Provider of Identity and Access Management Solutions for Healthcare

ANDOVER, Mass. - June 1, 2006 - Sentillion, Inc., the leading provider of identity and access management (IAM) solutions for the always-on healthcare industry, today announced that Pepin Heart Hospital & Dr. Kiran C. Patel Research Institute (Pepin Heart Hospital) has implemented Sentillion's Vergence® strong authentication, single sign-on, and context management solutions. Pepin Heart Hospital is the most recent addition to the multi-facility University Community Health network and the first digital cardiovascular specialty facility in the Southeast.

Pepin Heart Hospital is working to fundamentally change cardiovascular care in the United States through the successful integration of world-class caregivers, state-of-the-art facilities, and leading technological innovations. Through its partnership with GE Healthcare and its status as a showcase site for GE, the organization has firmly positioned itself at the leading edge of healthcare IT technology. However, with the doors of the new facility set to open in early 2006, Pepin Heart Hospital was faced with a best-of-breed IT environment and a group of clinicians frustrated by multiple passwords and authentication credentials.

The implementation of Sentillion's Vergence SignOn Manager and Vergence Context Manager enabled Pepin Heart Hospital to meet the demands of their clinicians for simplified access to the critical patient information housed within their clinical applications. Doctors and nurses at Pepin Heart Hospital now have fast, intuitive access to a wide-range of applications including GE Centricity Enterprise EHR, GE Centricity CVIS, Centricity RIS-IC (formerly IDX Imagecast) and Siemens NetAccess.

"Our physicians were really stressing the importance of having single sign-on and context management available on day one at the new facility" said Lynn Henrich, Director of IS Technology Services, University Community Hospital. "Sentillion's ability to serve as a single source for a full set of identity and access management solutions was crucial to having these critical technologies available for the facility's grand opening."

Keeping in-line with the cutting-edge, digital environment, the organization further enhanced the end-user experience through the implementation of proximity and biometric technologies. Vergence Authenticator, featuring Ensure XyLoc proximity and Identix BioLogon® biometric technologies, allows users to immediately sign-on to their workstation without even touching a keyboard.

Shortly after deployment, Pepin Heart Hospital has already realized significant benefits from the Vergence product suite in the form of strengthened desktop security, improved HIPAA compliance and increased physician satisfaction.

"Physicians are ecstatic about the new technology," said Henrich. "They walk up to a workstation, the proximity badge detects their presence, they put their finger on a fingerprint reader, and they're signed in. From there, they can immediately access patient information and quickly switch between a range of applications to see a patient's entire medical record. From a security standpoint, the desktops are completely locked down and only individuals with proper authentication credentials or biometric and proximity devices can sign on."

About Pepin Heart Hospital
Opened in the Spring of 2006, Pepin Heart Hospital & Dr. Kiran C. Patel Research Institute is the fifth hospital in the University Community Health network of hospitals, which was created to reflect the combined strength and partnership achieved through the union of University Community Hospital (UCH) and UCH-Carrollwood in Tampa, Helen Ellis Memorial Hospital in Tarpon Springs, and Sun Coast Hospital in Largo. The hospital is positioned to transform the delivery of healthcare with its all-digital technology. Pepin Heart Hospital & Dr. Kiran C. Patel Research Institute is located on the same campus as University Community Hospital at 3100 East Fletcher Avenue, Tampa, Fla., (813) 971-6000.

About Sentillion
Sentillion is the leading provider of identity and access management solutions to the always-on healthcare industry. Sentillion’s Vergence® product suite enables healthcare organizations to know who their users are, help them be productive, guard their systems and protect their patients. The Vergence solution is a modularized product suite that includes user provisioning, strong authentication, single sign-on, clinical context management and privacy management. With customers across North America, Sentillion was named the leading vendor for healthcare single sign-on for three consecutive years by IDC Research. Sentillion is a privately held company headquartered in Andover, Mass. For more information, visit Sentillion at www.sentillion.com.